Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi

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Salman Rushdie thinks Taiye Selasi is splendid. Nobel prizewinner Toni
Morrison adopted Selasi as her protégé. And newspapers have described her as
“one to watch” (though a churl might suggest that the eagerness with which
they watch her may not be unrelated to her marvellous cheekbones: we haven’t
escaped this trap). In short, the literary establishment thinks that you
should read this book.

Don’t let all this put you off, because this is a wonderful book. It opens in
a garden in Ghana, with the death of Kweku Sai — father, brilliant surgeon
and deserter of his family. He dies while